I used Scott Hanselman's "BabySmash" as an inspiration to get started, and I was able to write this in a matter of hours.

So as we are getting closer to the holiday season, this is the time to grab your copy of the cool new Christmas Lights for you desktop from the download page. Christmas will never be the same again once you've experienced this!

The application "works" as of right now (tray-icon, blinking lights around the borders) but there is still a lot of room for improvement.

Here is a (non complete) list of features that I wish for:

Get better artwork for the bulbs

Be able to mix several types and colors of bulbs

Let the user choose different blinking patterns (plugins?)

Prevent the application from starting more than once :-)

Make the number of lights configurable

Make the blinking speed configurable

Tune the frame rate to the amount of CPU power available

Make a cool page with statistics about the number of blinks produced by this app...

Help me extend this list (and motivate me to work on this) by leaving a comment!